Deep Black Sea | Episode 15

Fly on the Wallin with Amber and Ben

The Sci-Fi Sigh Podcast

Tv & Film

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

We review the novella, The Deep, by Rivers Solomon with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes. Add it to the oeuvre of mermaid fiction, but unlike The Little Mermaid, the merfolk of this world don’t lose their voice. We discuss terror management theory, air guns, mermaid cunnilingus and not much more. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin: https://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/emily.klotz/engl1302-6/readings/the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas-ursula-le-guin/view The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin The Freedom of the Shifting Seas by Jaymee Goh Terror Management Theory and the COVID-19 Pandemic: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7498956/#:~:text=With%20his%20colleagues%20Jeff%20Greenberg,results%20from%20the%20uniquely%20human

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sci-Fi Sci, a podcast about black science fiction, fantasy, and staying on
0:10.6	the same page in this magical marriage.
0:13.7	I'm one of your co-hosts, Amber Wallen, and you is...
0:17.7	Benjamin Wallen.
0:19.7	Nice.
0:21.7	Greetings, Benjamin.
0:22.7	Before we get started today on episode 15, it's been 15 weeks, and I haven't killed
0:27.5	Ben Phenomeno.
0:29.6	I just want to thank everyone listening out there and also, at Monishu, urge you to leave
0:35.7	a rating on Apple Podcasts.
0:37.8	It would mean a lot to us if you've been listening, hanging in there with us all these
0:41.0	weeks.
0:42.0	Stop by Apple Podcasts and leave a rating because that's how we're going to spread the
0:44.8	good news about black science fiction and fantasy.
0:48.1	And more importantly, ourselves spread the good news about...
0:51.6	We are more important than the genre of black science fiction and fantasy.
0:57.4	Probably.
0:58.4	Yeah.
0:59.4	No, we're not.
1:01.8	Not at all, but anyway, leave a rating, show us some love that way.
1:07.0	So let's get into today's episode.
1:08.9	It's episode 15, we read The Deep by Rivers Solomon, and I just want to say this is my favorite
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